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GENERAL SCIENCE. 



Black, W. Observations medical and political on the Small-pox, and 

 the advantages and disadvantages of Inoculation ; and on the 

 Mortality of Mankind at every age ; to which is added a postscript 

 coniaining the sketch of a plan for improving the London bills of 

 births and mortality. Second edition. 8°. London, 1781. 



Blackburn, John. Description of a parabolic Sounding-board erected 

 in Attercliffe church. 8°. London, 1829. 



Blackett, Powell Charles. An Essay on the Use of the Atropa Bella- 

 donna or Solanum lethale and the Solanum hortense, with obser- 

 vations on their effects in the cure of scirrhus, cancer, stricture, &c. 



8°. London, 1826. 



Blackstone, J". Specimen Botanicum, quo plantarum plurium rariorum 

 Angliae indigenarum loci natales illustrantur. 8°. Londini, 1746. 



Blackwall, John. A History of the Spiders of Great Britain and Ire- 

 land. (Bay Society.) 2 parts. 4°. London, 1861-64. 



Blackwell, J. Kenyon. Explosions in Coal Mines, their Causes, and 

 the Means available for their Prevention or Control. 



8°. London, 1853. 



Blackwood, F. P. Directions for the Outer Passage from Sydney to 

 Torres Strait, to accompany the Chart of the Barrier Reefs. 



8°. London, 1847. 



Blaeuw, Willem Iansz. Zeespiegel, inhoudende een korte Onderwy- 

 singhe in de Konst der Zeevaert, en Beschryvinghe der Seen en 

 kusten van de Oostersche, Noordsche, en Westersche Schipvaert. 



12 pts. in 1 vol. Folio. Amsterdam, 1627. 



See also Melius : Opera omnia. 



Life and Works. See Baudet. 



Blagden, Charles. Report on the best Method of proportioning the 

 Excise upon Spirituous Liquors. 4°. [London, 1790.] 



Blagrave, John. Baculum Familliare, Catholicon, sive Generale. A 

 Booke of the making and use of a Staffe, newly invented by the 

 Author, called the Familiar Staffe, as well for that it may be made 

 usually and familiarlie to walke with, as for that it performeth the 

 Geometrical Mensurations of all Altitudes, Longitudes, Latitudes, 

 Distances and Profundities. ... 4°. London, 1590. 



The Art of Dyalling, in two parts ; the first shewing plainly, 



and in a manner mechanically, to make Dyals to all Plaines, . . . 

 with the Theoricke of the Arte ; the second how to performe the 

 selfe same. 4°. London, 1609. 



Blagrave's Mathematical Jewel. See Palmer. 



Blainville, Henri Marie Ducrotay de. Propositions extraites d'un Essai 

 sur la Respiration, suivies de quelques Experiences sur 1' Influence 

 de la Huitieme Paire de Nerfs dans la Respiration. 



4°. Paris, 1808. 



Prodrome d'une Nouvelle Distribution Systematique du Regne 



Animal. 4°. [Paris, 1816.] 



